Walker v. State

OPINION

DAVIS, Commissioner.

Appeal is taken from a conviction for aggravated robbery. Punishment was assessed by the jury at ten years.

Helen Ortega, night manager of the Seven-Eleven store on Bauman Street in Houston, was coming out of the back room of the store on October 3, 1974, when she was “caught by surprise” by “two white males.” Ortega identified appellant as the one who “pulls out his gun and points at me” and “tells me to open the cash register.” Ortega, who was pregnant at the time, testified that she was in fear of death or serious bodily injury. After she opened the cash register,…